Coaching practices for How to Calibrate Teaching

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I taught it once, felt the rush of finally getting it, and stopped there
• When I help someone learn I either smother them with so much help they never struggle, or leave them stranded and lost
• My real decisions take months to resolve and matter too much for me to score them honestly, so I never get clean reps
• I make calls about how things will go all the time, but I never write them down or check them after
• I walk into every test sure I’ll do well and walk out shocked by the score

Practices that may help

1. Calibration Training
   Calibration training teaches you to match your stated confidence levels to your actual accuracy: if you say "70% confident," roughly 70% of those claims should turn out to be correct. Tetlock’s forecasting research and probability training studies show calibration is trainable with practice and feedback — the evidence here is specific and replicable.
2. Use what you couldn’t teach as your study list
   The moments you fumbled while teaching are exactly what to go back and learn.
   The Protege Effect: Learn It Better by Teaching It
3. Calibration practice
   Predict your performance before each retrieval test, then compare prediction to outcome.
   Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn
4. Provide contingent support: more help when needed, less when not
   Calibrate help to the learner’s actual performance moment by moment rather than delivering a fixed dose.
   Scaffolding: The Art of Temporary Learning Support
5. Build calibration reps with low-stakes trivia and almanac questions
   Use factual trivia questions as a practice ground for calibration — outcomes resolve immediately and the stakes are zero.
   Calibration Training
6. Score your own past predictions to calibrate your outside-view use
   Keep a forecast log and score it — you cannot improve calibration without feedback on where you were over- or under-confident.
   The Outside View
7. Calibrated Questions, Made Practical
   Calibrated questions are open "How" and "What" questions that hand the other party a problem to solve, letting you steer a negotiation or difficult conversation without commands or ultimatums. The technique comes from Chris Voss’s FBI hostage-negotiation work; its mechanism is grounded in autonomy psychology, though the specific scripts are practitioner craft rather than a lab-validated protocol.
8. Confidence-accuracy gap tracking
   After each test, compute and record the gap between your predicted and actual scores.
   Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You
9. Assess expertise level before deciding how much guidance to provide
   The same support that accelerates novices can slow down intermediates — measure first, design second.
   The Expertise Reversal Effect: When Help Becomes Harmful
10. Identify the specific domains where you are most overconfident
    Calibration is domain-specific — find where your confidence most exceeds your accuracy.
    Calibration Training

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